GermanUnity@Balaton

Surveillance: Secret Police Film Festival 6.

December 2, 2015 6:30 PM –
December 2, 2015 8:30 PM

The sixth and final event of the retrospective film program “Surveillance: Secret Police Film Festival”, which includes an international selection of training films, newsreels and operative films produced by Communist Secret Police 1962–1989.

Type Events

Genre film screening and discussion

Series

Surveillance, Secret Police Film Festival

Curated by MINK András, Ioana MACREA-TOMA, Piotr WCISLIK, ZÁDORI Zsuzsanna

Artits(s)

New York-i Nyílt Társadalom Intézet / Open Society Foundations, New York
Goethe-Institut Budapest

Related exhibition(s)

Watching You, Watching Me

Related event(s)

Watching You, Watching Me – Opening Event The Life of an Agent Under Surveillance by the Securitate 1970–1980 Hear My Cry / Usłyszcie mój krzyk Their Duty is to Spy What were they seeing while watching? Operative films from the Stasi Mediathek GermanUnity@Balaton What Does Privacy Mean in an Open Society?

Summary

The sixth and final event of the retrospective film program “Surveillance: Secret Police Film Festival”, which includes an international selection of training films, newsreels and operative films produced by Communist Secret Police 1962–1989.

GermanUnity@Balaton – Honeyland / NémetEgység @ Balatonnál – Mézföld (documentary film)
Home movies, interviews, photographs, and documents from East German and Hungarian secret police archives reconstruct the atmosphere of summers at Balaton in the late socialist period.
directed by Péter Forgács, Hungary, 2011, Hungarian & German with English subtitles, 78 min

Introduction and follow up Q&A with Film Director Péter Forgács

The program is in English.